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Thirteen, agreeable to the ancient Number of Vicars 4but at this Day they are reduced to Seven, and one ofthem Subchanter.

The Vicars at their Admiffion are bound to be Priefts,at lead Deacons, and at the next Ordination they multcommence Priefts. Their Statutes oblige them to con-tinual Refidence 5 and if abfent from Matins or fromthe grand Mafs, they are amerced 2 d. and for everyCanonical Hour, the Mafs of the Virgin Mary , or forthe DefunH, a Penny : All which Forfeitures were tobe deduced out of their Sailary, and divided amongthofe Vicars that duly attend thefe Duties. But theStatutes 1 Ed-jr. VI. ftate the Forfeit of Abfence fromMatins to be one Half-penny, and the like from Pro-ceffion, Communion or Even-Song, to be paid to thePoor’s Box. And not only they, but all other Mini-fters of the Chapel, if they leave the College aboveTwenty Days, without Reafons fufficiently approvedof by the Refidentiary Canons 4 or any of the Societythat lead a vicious or fcandalous Life, after the Fa£imanifeftly proved before the Cujios, are to be expelled;but an Abfence lefs than Twenty Days, without Leavegranted, is punifhable at Difcretion.

Each Vicar enjoy’d at firft an annual Penfion of 8 l.paid after this Manner, viz. every Kalendar Month8 s. for their Diet, and at the Expiration of everyQuarter Day the Surplus was confign’d for other Ne-ceflaries they flood in need of. King Ed. IV. encreafedtheir Penfions to Twenty Marks a-piece ; to whichQueen Elizabeth (they being then called Petty Canons)advanced 1 3 s. and 4 d. per Annum to each out of theLands confirm’d on the College by King Ed. VI. andnow their yearly Sallaries are encreas’d to ThirtyPounds. Out of thefe Petty Canons is elefted a Sub-chanter, (and commonly the fame Perfon is the Dean’sVicar) who has the Cure of Souls, marries and bu-ries, &-c.

CLERKS.

For the Service of the Choir at the Foundation wereallotted Four Clerks, one whereof was to be inftituteda Deacon, and another a Sub-deacon before their Ad-

roiffion,